Daily Holidays - September 24

[TexasTowelie]

1. Some more about Punctuation Day:

ABILENE, Texas - Whether it’s an interrogative or an exclamation, a comma or a colon, a pair of parenthesis or the gentle trailing off an ellipsis, punctuation makes language comprehensible.

National Punctuation Day on Thursday happens to be all about those important little marks. Founder Jeff Rubin, a former newspaper reporter living in California, saw a need for a holiday to express why it’s important to keep your colons and semicolons clear.

Rubin admits he started the observance in 2004 because of frustration, specifically targeting incorrect uses of punctuation, capitalization, and spelling in newspapers.

“I’ve always been a punctuation fan, I’ve always been very good at punctuation,” he said. “I think it’s important. I think it adds clarity and meaning to the written word.”

An Ohio woman had a 2014 parking ticket dismissed, Rubin said, by successfully arguing a law in the village of West Jefferson, Ohio, was poorly punctuated.

The law listed several types of vehicles that could not be parked for more than 24 hours, including a “motor vehicle camper.” A comma was intended between the words “vehicle” and “camper,” but the woman, Andrea Cammelleri, successfully argued her pickup didn’t fit the definition as written.

Continued at http://www.reporternews.com/news/local-news/punctuation-day-celebrates-vital-little-marks_88585899 .